Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan’s massive reserve deployment briefly turned the Blood Arena battle in Herbal Continent’s favor, but the Eastern Clan answered with overwhelming forces and pushed the fight toward defeat. With the Mortal Domain nearly depleted and Jiu Wu’s forces repeatedly resurrecting against impossible odds, Chen Fan activated his final-final plan and left spectator mode to face the battle himself.

• The Mortal Domain supplied Herbal Continent with protection formations and vast numbers of Sky-Piercing Pillars, letting the allied factions destroy Didi Continent’s first strange tide and level much of its defenses.
• The Eastern Clan revealed enormous reserves, including Strange Dragons, Sky-Covering Black Tortoises, and millions of strange entities, reversing the battle and forcing the allies to pool their remaining resources for another counterattack.
• The Eastern Clan sent further reinforcements under Wind Erosion, while Chen Fan authorized Jiu Wu and the Retirement Clan to enter the battle with strange entities that could repeatedly resurrect using eerie stones.
• Wind Erosion killed Jiu Wu once but learned that Jiu Wu possessed an innate dark sacred physique; Jiu Wu revived, while the Eastern Clan’s Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities overwhelmed the Retirement Clan’s Strange Dragons.
• The Mortal Domain ran nearly out of supplies as the Retirement Clan continued reviving and attacking the strange tide, and Chen Fan ordered the final-final plan.
• Chen Fan exited spectator mode, walked onto the Northbank Defense Line, and looked to the lights of homes behind him as the rain fell.

The Mortal Domain turned the tide in the Blood Arena by supplying the Herbal Continent with twenty thousand volleys of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars, destroying the Eastern Clan and earning the title Blood Arena God-King. The battle ended with the Eastern Clan wiped out, while the Hexagram Heaven Continent's elderly diviner failed to learn what force had destroyed it.

• Across the Eternal Night Continent, people prayed as Chen Fan used the Mortal Domain's popular will to build and charge its remaining Sky-Piercing Pillars.
• Jiu Wu awakened the power of his innate dark sacred physique and unleashed a devastating slash, but the million hands of Heaven-Shrouding Strange Entities remained standing.
• The Eternal Night Continent supplied the Herbal Continent with 9,999 volleys of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars, wiping out the million hands and turning the battle around.
• The Eternal Night Continent supplied another 9,999 volleys, destroying the Eastern Clan and winning the Blood Arena with 99% faction contribution; Jiu Wu celebrated the victory.
• After the Blood Arena ended, human continents sought ties with the Mortal Domain while Strange Entity Clan continents fled the World Battlefield.
• On the Hexagram Heaven Continent, the elderly diviner learned the Eastern Clan had been annihilated, but the Divination-Heaven Bell refused to reveal who had destroyed it.

After the Eternal Night Continent won the Blood Arena, Chen Fan received the Blood Arena God-King title, its scepter, and an opportunity to pursue the Uncrowned King title. The victory banquet revealed Jiu Wu’s new powers, and Jiu Wu later began planning a Nine-Five Dragon Chariot for Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan received the Blood Arena God-King title and customized its scepter to resemble his Jadeite Staff, then chose the opportunity to unlock the Uncrowned King title over the other compensation options.
• Chen Fan learned that the Uncrowned King’s first mission required every continent and race in the World Battlefield to submit to the Eternal Night Continent in exchange for faster, more reliable building construction.
• At the victory banquet, Xiaowen explained that Jiu Wu’s crimson blade attack was a Dark Strange Art, and Jiu Wu revealed that he could create and control a powerful crimson longblade.
• Chen Fan told Jiu Wu to keep exploring his abilities and rejected Crippled Monkey’s suggestion that he find a wife, then left the banquet to walk off his meal.
• Sanqi brought his classmates to the victory banquet, while Chen Fan returned to crafting Sky-Piercing Pillars as the battlefield resource settlement continued.
• Jiu Wu discovered that he could resurrect certain high-ranking war machines, collected fragments of four Strange Dragons, and approved Qian Xiaoping’s first design for a Nine-Five Dragon Chariot.

After the Mortal Domain received its share of the defeated factions’ assets, Chen Fan set plans to build strength and pursue affiliations across the World Battlefield without constant warfare. The Mortal Domain invited continent lords to an exchange conference, and one envoy’s dramatic attempt to die rather than be detained made a hostile invitation delivery end in an apology and a promise to attend.

• Chen Fan kept the rare Islands, Strange Entity Blueprints, dark technology points, affiliated races, and blank heavenly daos awarded to the Mortal Domain, greatly boosting its defenses through War Dividend.
• At a strategy meeting, Chen Fan assigned the Mortal Domain to stockpile assets, study the World Battlefield, and seek peaceful affiliations; the officials debated insurance and deterrence, and Chen Fan approved building Jiu Wu’s Nine-Five Dragon Chariot.
• The Mortal Domain sent messengers to invite continent lords to its First World Battlefield Exchange Conference, and the Thunder Serpent Continent’s lord accepted the invitation.
• At the Black Orchid Continent, Zhou Li refused to be intimidated and threatened to die rather than be held; its Continent Lord stopped him and promised the Black Orchid Continent would attend the conference.

Chen Fan received seventeen rare Islands delivered through space rifts, including a pink Divine Strange Island that could generate another Strange Entity Blueprint, then failed to buy the Ephemeral Bloom blueprint from the Gods and Devils Continent. As the Mortal Domain prepared to host the First World Battlefield Exchange Conference, Chen Fan arranged the first collection of Slot Machine earnings and welcomed two Yellow Springs Wraiths into the Mortal Domain.

• Chen Fan retreated from expanding space rifts, which dropped seventeen rare Islands into the sea; he identified six Strategic Islands, two Interference Islands, and a pink Divine Strange Island with one Strange Entity Blueprint use remaining.
• Chen Fan decided to save the Divine Strange Island's remaining use while considering which High-Ranking Strange Entity to reproduce, then tried to buy the Ephemeral Bloom blueprint from the Gods and Devils Continent, whose seller refused and raised its price.
• Little Qiu and Qi Chong oversaw preparations for the First World Battlefield Exchange Conference, while Jiu Wu struggled to comprehend a second Dark Strange Art and led the Huyi Continent's strange tide on a morning run.
• Two Yellow Springs Wraiths told Chen Fan that eerie stones had flowed into Yellow Springs, and he arranged for the Mortal Domain to collect them as Slot Machine proceeds.
• Chen Fan registered the Yellow Springs Wraiths as Mortal Domain Members, arranged for Mr. Na to share White-Cut Chicken and take them on food trips, while Ming San wondered why they kept postponing their return to Yellow Springs.

Chen Fan investigated the Eastern Clan’s continent and learned that its Wind-Eroded Stones could help protect the Mortal Domain from the deadly winds at the world’s eastern edge. As the First World Battlefield Exchange Conference began, wary Continent Lords arrived in Jiangbei and watched Chen Fan’s nine-Strange-Dragon chariot approach the city gates.

• Chen Fan sent Weiwei, Keke, and Tiantian to collect Wind-Eroded Stones, while the Heaven-Questioning Bell explained their use and the Wind-Eroded Land’s role in driving Yellow Springs westward.
• Reconnaissance teams told visiting Continent Lords that the Mortal Domain had bombarded every continent in the War Mire as a greeting and had destroyed seven third-level forces after advancing to a third-level continent.
• On June 7, Year 07, the Continent Lords gathered outside the Eternal Night Continent, uncertain whether they dared to skip the conference despite fearing a trap.
• Wang Mazi welcomed the Continent Lords at Jiangbei Wharf, and they noticed thousands of Heavenly-Derivation Sky-Piercing Pillars before reaching the closed city gates.
• Nine Strange Dragons brought Chen Fan’s Dragon Chariot to the gates, where Wang Mazi announced that all the attending Continent Lords had arrived.

Chen Fan hosted the World Battlefield Continent Lords at a lavish banquet, then proposed that every continent become affiliated with Mortal Domain or leave the battlefield for thirty days and return after three months. The Continent Lords questioned what his plan to “clear the area” meant, and the Black Orchid Continent became the first to accept Mortal Domain’s five-year continental insurance.

• Chen Fan welcomed the Continent Lords into Mortal City and treated them to a feast of rare dishes that Angler Senior had fished from Food-Heaven Continent.
• The Continent Lords and Mortal Domain’s members enjoyed the banquet while Food-Heaven Continent’s leaders discovered their prepared feast had vanished and decided to secretly make a replacement with some ingredients deliberately prepared poorly.
• Chen Fan told the Continent Lords that Mortal Domain wanted every continent to become affiliated, offering five years of protection for a ten-percent share, while asking those who refused to leave the battlefield within thirty days and return after three months.
• The Continent Lords asked whether Mortal Domain would force them out or attack them later, and Chen Fan assured them it would not attack those who refused but would intervene in conflicts involving insured continents.
• The Black Orchid Continent’s lord announced that his continent would purchase five years of Mortal Domain’s continental insurance.

Chen Fan completed the Mortal Domain’s preparations for fifth-level advancement as Fifth-Level Continents and Strange Entity Clans converged on the World Battlefield over Jiu Wu’s Innate Dark Sacred Physique. The human continents demanded that Chen Fan execute Jiu Wu, while the Strange Entity Clans declared their support for him, leaving the Mortal Domain facing a mounting crisis.

• Chen Fan secured insurance agreements from 68 Continent Lords, completed the first phase of the Uncrowned King quest, and gained the ability to build ten Sky-Piercing Pillars at once.
• Over the following months, the Mortal Domain expanded its defenses, trade, and research, and Chen Fan set a goal of reaching fifth-level status and leaving the World Battlefield within three years.
• On January 1, year 08, Celestial Pivot detected Fifth-Level Continents and a Level-Five Strange Entity Clan approaching the World Battlefield, prompting Chen Fan to order combat readiness.
• The Lords of the Heavenfall Continent, Fly Continent, and Toshiba Continent demanded that Chen Fan hand over or execute Jiu Wu, warning that the Mortal Domain would be destroyed if it refused.
• Chen Fan used Ten Thousand Nations Pay Homage to summon four nearby Fifth-Level Continent Lords, but they rejected his doubts about the prophecy and insisted that Jiu Wu must die.
• The Coffin-Tipping Strange Entity Clan and other Strange Entity Clan members arrived and proclaimed their willingness to protect Jiu Wu, intensifying the turmoil around the World Battlefield.

During Ten Thousand Nations Pay Homage, Chen Fan refused to surrender Jiu Wu and warned that the Mortal Domain would attack any unauthorized fourth-level continent entering its World Battlefield. As powerful forces gathered outside and debated the Dark Monarch’s identity, a Ninth-Level Strange Entity Clan King revealed he had anticipated the upheaval and was waiting for the destined Dark Monarch to enter the Boundary Battlefield.

• At the banquet, Chen Fan challenged the Fly Continent’s claims of serving humanity, refused to hand over Jiu Wu, and threatened indiscriminate firepower strikes against unauthorized fourth-level continents.
• After the banquet ended, Chen Fan reassured Jiu Wu that the Mortal Domain would remain in the World Battlefield and told Qian Xiaoping to investigate whether they could escape through the Fallen Firmament.
• On the Hexagram Heaven Continent, its leader suspected Jiu Wu might be bait, failed to divine information about the Eternal Night Continent, and warned other forces not to leave their territories.
• On the Gods and Devils Continent, an ordinary-looking man considered how Jiu Wu might become the Dark Monarch if the Mortal Domain betrayed him, then decided to meet Chen Fan and Jiu Wu.
• Chen Fan drafted a ten-year development plan and went to sleep while Crippled Monkey and Wang Kui noted his calmness amid the surrounding forces.
• In the Boundary Battlefield, a Doppelganger Wraith King said he had sensed the Dark Monarch’s emergence months earlier and awaited his arrival, while the Food-Heaven Continent’s owner remained baffled by the wealth paid for 178 banquet sets.

Hu Wan confronted the Anti-Fan Alliance over its plan to attack the Mortal Domain, then met Chen Fan to discuss Jiu Wu and Ephemeral Bloom. After seeing Jiu Wu, Hu Wan doubted that he looked like a future Dark Monarch.

• The lord of Heavenfall Continent revealed that his continent had survived the Time Ruins and gained the Ultimate Continent Title Lord of the Time Ruins, which he believed could defeat the Nine Strange Dragons.
• Hu Wan arrived at the Anti-Fan Alliance meeting, criticized its plan to attack the Mortal Domain, and accused its members of wanting to seize the domain's resources and Blood Arena God-King title.
• Hu Wan failed to contact Chen Fan through the usual channel, used an exotic treasure to meet him, and had to address their dispute over the listed price of Ephemeral Bloom before Chen Fan would listen.
• Hu Wan explained his concerns about Jiu Wu and the Mortal Domain, and Chen Fan summoned Jiu Wu to meet him.
• Hu Wan studied Jiu Wu and found no sign of brutality or ambition in his eyes, leaving him doubtful that Jiu Wu was the destined Dark Monarch.

Chen Fan learned that the Anti-Fan Alliance had rejected Hu Wan’s attempt to negotiate, while the Mortal Domain secretly prepared to escape the World Battlefield. Absolute Annihilation then appeared, filling the region with moving space rifts, and Chen Fan found the Eternal Night Continent could destroy them as it moved, leaving him with a chance to break out but forcing him to confront the fate of the affiliated continents.

• Chen Fan told Jiu Wu that the Mortal Domain planned to escape the World Battlefield once the Research Pavilion found a way to lift the Eternal Night Continent past the Fallen Firmament barrier.
• Hu Wan failed to persuade the Anti-Fan Alliance, whose twenty-one fifth-level continents continued to surround the World Battlefield.
• Absolute Annihilation descended, creating countless slowly moving space rifts across the World Battlefield and surrounding sea and threatening every continent for a year.
• Chen Fan tested the Eternal Night Continent against the rifts and discovered that it could crush and destroy them.
• Chen Fan ordered the Mortal Domain to prepare to break out and told the Huyi Continent to follow in the cleared path, then hesitated over what would happen to the affiliated continents.

Chen Fan faced the Heavenfall Continent’s attack after its Lord of the Time Ruins title froze the Eternal Night Continent, but he used his Heavenly Dao Builder powers to restart its propellers. The two continents collided again, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The Eternal Night Continent escaped the World Battlefield with ninety-nine affiliated continents sheltered in its protected zone.
• Chen Jiutian warned Chen Fan that the fifth-level Heavenfall Continent had changed course and was charging toward them, so Chen Fan ordered the Eternal Night Continent to meet it head-on.
• The Heavenfall Continent’s ruler revealed his Lord of the Time Ruins title, freezing the Eternal Night Continent and its people while leaving Chen Fan able to move.
• Chen Fan recognized the ruler as a Night Awakener, and the Heavenfall Continent rammed the frozen Eternal Night Continent without damaging either one.
• Chen Fan used his Heavenly Dao Builder powers to reignite the Mysterious Heaven Propellers, restoring the Eternal Night Continent’s movement.
• The Eternal Night Continent charged into the Heavenfall Continent again, and the two continents collided with little damage.

As Ultimate Calamity: Absolute Annihilation engulfed the World Battlefield and nearby continents, Chen Fan organized Mortal Domain’s sixty-eight affiliated continents into a protected safety zone before leading Eternal Night Continent’s breakout. The affiliated continents remained behind under the Angler’s protection as Eternal Night Continent charged into the storm toward a new beginning.

• Chen Fan rejected abandoning the affiliated continents and ordered them to follow Celestial Pivot’s evacuation routes to a safety zone Eternal Night Continent would clear; the Angler agreed to keep space rifts out of it.
• Eternal Night Continent carved out the safety zone, and Celestial Pivot guided all sixty-eight affiliated continents there while nearby continents struggled to escape or sought other paths to survive.
• After the final continent arrived, Chen Fan ordered Eternal Night Continent to break out at full speed, leaving the Angler to protect the sheltered continents for the remaining eleven months.
• The affiliated Continent Lords watched Eternal Night Continent depart, grateful that it had delayed its escape to save them; the Angler continued guarding the safety zone with his fishing line.
• Chen Fan watched the storm from Eternal Night Continent as it annihilated the space rifts ahead, and Crippled Monkey stood beside him in the rain.

Chen Fan destroyed the Heavenfall Continent, gained new continent titles and treasures, and led the Eternal Night Continent east toward the Wind-Eroded Land. He then met two unusually young Night Watchers and recognized their resemblance to old acquaintances, ending by offering to name the younger child Big Fish.

• Chen Fan sealed the Heavenfall Continent's Lord and used the Eternal Night Continent's propellers to push it into Ultimate Calamity: Absolute Annihilation, destroying it and plundering the Lord of the Time Ruins title and Chain of the Time Ruins.
• After the Eternal Night Continent escaped the Calamity, Chen Fan ordered Jiu Wu to give a nearby third-level continent a hundred billion eerie stones, then directed his people to head east toward the Wind-Eroded Land.
• Chen Fan gained the unique Undying Sacred Court title, chose a Dragon Graveyard Map as compensation, and received the Undying Stele, which could potentially resurrect the dead.
• Three days later, Chen Fan reviewed the Mortal Domain Spring Examination's new recruits and summoned two four-year-old Night Watchers who grew in reverse.
• Chen Fan recognized that the boys resembled two old acquaintances and realized the younger one was a girl disguised as a boy; he offered to name her Big Fish.

Chen Fan learned that Big Fish and Gongyang Yiyue had returned to life as children, then recovered the Fly Continent Lord’s abandoned resources after he died stranded on a barren Island. Months later, the Eternal Night Continent reached the Wind-Eroded Land, where Chen Fan and his companions stepped ashore to explore.

• Mr. Na told Chen Fan that Big Fish and Gongyang Yiyue had been reborn as children named Big Fish and Dayang, and Chen Fan decided to let them start over without learning their past identities.
• Jiu Wu investigated a rare Island and found the dead Fly Continent Lord amid his hoarded resources; Chen Fan ordered a water burial and had the resources collected.
• Wang Kui reported that the recovered supplies included 478 trillion eerie stones, 4.7 tons of Stellar Gold, and a Wind Chime Exotic Treasure that let Teleportation Formations transport supplies once a year.
• As the Eternal Night Continent traveled east through fierce winds, Chen Fan shared a hot pot meal with his companions and heard that they were nearing the Wind-Eroded Land.
• Chen Fan’s continent reached the Wind-Eroded Land, and he stepped onto its barren surface with his companions to take a group picture and explore.

Chen Fan discovered that the Heaven's Mandate Token opened a passage through the Yellow Springs, then sent the Eternal Night Continent into it as a direct route to the Yellow Springs Beyond. The continent began its perilous journey, while Ming San wondered why he had sneezed.

• Chen Fan sent a Strange Dragon toward the ocean at the Wind-Eroded Land's edge, where it vanished, then collected two-thirds of the Wind-Eroded Fruits and left the rest behind.
• The Heaven's Mandate Token revealed a hidden entrance, leading Chen Fan and his companions into an interstitial space and to the core flow of the Yellow Springs.
• Chen Fan realized the passage could serve as an expressway to the Yellow Springs Beyond and confirmed that the Eternal Night Continent's Undying Sacred Court title made it hard enough to withstand the Yellow Springs.
• Chen Fan's forces moved the Huyi Continent onto the Eternal Night Continent, then guided the continent toward the passage's entrance.
• The Eternal Night Continent entered the passage and began moving toward the Yellow Springs, starting its journey to the Yellow Springs Beyond.
• Ming San sneezed beside the river in the Yellow Springs Beyond and guessed that someone was thinking of him.

The Eternal Night Continent crossed Yellow Springs and reached Yellow Springs Beyond, where Chen Fan met the Angler Clan Elderly Man and learned that the races were choosing sides for the coming Dark Upheaval. The chapter ended with Chen Fan facing the need to restore the King of Anglers’ memories as the Third Dark Turmoil approached.

• The Eternal Night Continent rode Yellow Springs for seven days before its propellers steered it safely past Snow Mountain and into Yellow Springs Beyond, where Chen Fan reunited with Ming San.
• Chen Jiutian proposed ways to establish a lasting connection to Yellow Springs, but Chen Fan left with Ming San’s warnings and set out toward the Extreme-Cold Grotto with Fat One and Fat Two.
• An elderly Fisherman stopped the continent at sea, then revealed that the King of Anglers had chosen the Eternal Night Continent and that the Angler Clan would support it during the Dark Upheaval.
• The Elderly Man explained the past alliances of the Dragon and Azure Dragon Clans, the Black Tortoise Clan’s danger, and the requirements for Jiu Wu to represent the Strange Entity Faction.
• The Dragon Clan proclaimed its allegiance to the Strange Entity Camp, and the Elderly Man urged Chen Fan to reach the Boundary Battlefield and restore the King of Anglers’ memories.
• After the Elderly Man departed and the continent resumed its journey, Chen Fan realized he needed one hundred tons of Stellar Gold to restore the King’s memories and feared the coming war.

The Angler explained to Chen Fan that the Third Dark Turmoil would be fought on the vast Boundary Battlefield, revealing humanity’s history, the purpose of this Heaven and Earth, and the possibility of restoring the Primordial Continent. He also described the Angler King’s past exploits and discussed Jiu Wu’s prophecy, then brought out diaries that might clarify it further.

• The Angler stopped the Eternal Night Continent again and invited Chen Fan and his companions to share three dishes while Chen Fan questioned him about the dark turmoils.
• The Angler explained that the first two dark turmoils occurred on the Boundary Battlefield, that humanity’s earlier worlds had fallen, and that this Heaven and Earth had been protected and prepared as humanity’s last headquarters.
• The Angler revealed that reassembling the Primordial Continent could allow a tenth-level continent to end the war, and that the four sacred races existed only in this Heaven and Earth.
• The Angler recounted how the Angler King tried to stop the previous war, attempted to steal the Seventh Sheet from the world’s creator, and hid the spoils he had fished up.
• The Angler confirmed Jiu Wu’s prophecy could help humanity if Jiu Wu declared allegiance to the Human Faction, then searched his diaries for more information about Oracle Island and the World Tree.
• Chen Fan asked whether the Angler caught edible fish, and the Angler said he saw no value in catching them.

After learning how dangerous the Boundary Battlefield was, Chen Fan revised the Mortal Domain’s plans and launched “Branching Out,” recruiting affiliated continents to expand its influence. The chapter ended with Eternal Night approaching the fifth-level Giggly Continent and receiving a warning that an intrusion would be treated as a declaration of war.

• The Angler revealed that he followed his King out of loyalty, gave his name as Canghai Yue, and departed after granting Chen Fan safe passage through the waters.
• Chen Fan rewrote the Mortal Domain’s Ten-Year Plan to affiliate continents across Heaven and Earth and recruited the candidate behind the proposal into the Strategist Pavilion.
• After the World Battlefield’s ultimate Calamity ended, Chen Fan visited the Bronze Statue on Black Orchid Continent and discussed the King of Anglers’ lost memories and a plan to obtain Stellar Gold.
• Chen Fan announced the “Branching Out” plan to ninety-nine Continent Lords, and about seventy agreed to help expand the Mortal Domain’s network of affiliated continents.
• Crippled Monkey asked why Chen Fan had not invoked the Human Race’s crisis to persuade the Continent Lords, and Chen Fan said he preferred to use his own methods.
• The Heavenly Derivation Display warned that Eternal Night was entering Giggly Continent’s 60,000-kilometer Safe Distance and that the fifth-level continent would retaliate if it intruded.

Chen Fan met Hu Wan and Xiaoxixi on the Giggly Continent and rejected their plan to force reluctant continents onto the Boundary Battlefield, revealing the Mortal Domain’s “Branching Out” strategy instead. Hu Wan and Xiaoxixi agreed to join Chen Fan’s plan, and Xiaoxixi disclosed that the Giggly Continent was a Grand Perfection Continent.

• Chen Fan redirected the Eternal Night Continent around the Giggly Continent’s safe zone, but Hu Wan recognized it and invited him to meet.
• Hu Wan proposed that the Gods and Devils Continent’s “Universal Unity” plan use Ephemeral Bloom to force fifth-level continents onto the Boundary Battlefield, but Chen Fan refused and warned that the plan would make the Gods and Devils Continent the Mortal Domain’s target.
• Chen Fan explained that “Branching Out” would link continents together so they could share war dividend layers and support one another, and Hu Wan and Xiaoxixi rushed to join it.
• Hu Wan offered to submit the Gods and Devils Continent to the Eternal Night Continent, but Chen Fan explained that they could not contract across different continent levels and needed to unlock War Dividend first.
• Xiaoxixi revealed that the Giggly Continent was a Grand Perfection Continent that could use the exclusive dark technologies of war, peace, and garden continents.